johnlarson66
These Pandas Rock
I think when you put the drift wood in, you will notice that your pH will drop a little bit below your tap water.
What causes pH increase?
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If you keep adding "tap water" for evaporated water, the Ph will keep increasing, as when water evaporates, only "water" is lost. Minerals stay in the tank. So, when you using tap water for top-off water, you are just adding more minerals to your tank.
I learned this after I found ph from my tank increased so much. I serached all the information I could find and realized how this happened. Therefore, for small amount of evaporated water, please use pure water instead. I personally use RO water. This will solve the problem.
I learned this after I found ph from my tank increased so much. I serached all the information I could find and realized how this happened. Therefore, for small amount of evaporated water, please use pure water instead. I personally use RO water. This will solve the problem.
Wow, this is over a month old. Hmm, to answer some of the questions asked.
pH of the tap is 7.8, and the tank is normally 7.8. It's a HOB filter (penguin 150 to be exact) .
The GH is around 12 ppm, with KH around 10-11 ppm. And I was using an automatic feeder. It is a cheap one, and only holds flakes. So my cories would have had to eat any left over flakes that made it to the bottom - they normally get shrimp pellets.
I might add about 1 quart at the most a week if the water gets to low before my weekly water change. But that's always taken care of within a couple of days with my weekly water change. So there's really no chance of build up. And this all happened within a week while I was on vacation.
No casualties were involved.
And for an update. Once I did my water change, the pH went back to 7.8. And I haven't seen it change since.
pH of the tap is 7.8, and the tank is normally 7.8. It's a HOB filter (penguin 150 to be exact) .
The GH is around 12 ppm, with KH around 10-11 ppm. And I was using an automatic feeder. It is a cheap one, and only holds flakes. So my cories would have had to eat any left over flakes that made it to the bottom - they normally get shrimp pellets.
I might add about 1 quart at the most a week if the water gets to low before my weekly water change. But that's always taken care of within a couple of days with my weekly water change. So there's really no chance of build up. And this all happened within a week while I was on vacation.
No casualties were involved.
And for an update. Once I did my water change, the pH went back to 7.8. And I haven't seen it change since.
